Triones Bus Master EIDE/ATAPI Device Driver for Intel Triton Chipset Revision 1.00H (November 06, 1995) ############################################################################# T A B L E O F C O N T E N T S ############################################################################# 1. INTRODUCTION 1.1 Overview 1.2 Triones Triton Bus Master EIDE/ATAPI Driver Files 2. MS-DOS / WINDOWS 2.1 Installation 2.2 De-Installation 2.3 Restrictions of Disk Driver and Fast Disk Driver 2.4 Troubleshooting 3. Windows NT3.5 3.1 Installation 3.2 De-Installation 3.3 Troubleshooting 4. Windows 95 4.1 Installation 4.2 De-Installation 5. Novell 3.X & 4.X 5.1 Installation 5.2 Troubleshooting 6. SCO UNIX 6.1 Installation 6.2 De-Installation 6.3 Adding Additional Hard Disk 6.4 Adding CD-ROM 6.5 Troubleshooting 7. SCO UNIX 7.1 Installation 7.2 De-Installation 8. OS/2 2.0 and WARP 3.X 8.1 Installation 8.2 De-Installation 8.3 Troubleshooting 9. Seever Utility ############################################################################# 1. I N T R O D U C T I O N ############################################################################# 1.1 Overview The Triton Bus Master EIDE/ATAPI Device Drivers created by TRIONES Technologies, Inc. has the following features: 1) Takes advantage of the Triton chipset bus mastering capability and support bus mastering IDE on both IDE hard disks and ATAPI CD-ROM drives. This greatly reduces the CPU utilization and increases the data transfer rate. 2) Supports advanced data transfer timing modes. The PIO mode can be up to mode 4, and the DMA mode can be up to multiple word mode 2. 3) Supports LBA mode and Multiple-Block (or Multiple-Sector) commands. This readme will describe the setup procedures for the Triton Bus Master Device Driver for each operating system. The Triton Bus Master Device Drivers can only be used on motherboards with the Triton chipset and the system BIOS must properly initialize the Triton chipset IDE interface for the Bus Master IDE operation. Do not use any other add-in IDE (PCI or ISA) card in the system. 1.2 Triones Triton Bus Master EIDE/ATAPI Driver Files TRIDMA.SYS -- The Triones Triton Bus Master EIDE Disk Driver for MS-DOS. TRICD.SYS -- The Triones Triton Bus Master ATAPI CD-ROM Driver for MS-DOS. TRIINT13.386 TRICTR.386 -- The Triones Triton Bus Master Fast Disk Driver for Windows 3.1 and Windows for WorkGroup 3.11. SETUP.EXE SETUP.INF -- The setup program. IDEATAPI.SYS-- The Triones Triton Bus Master EIDE/ATAPI Device Driver for Windows NT 3.5. OEMSETUP.INF-- The setup information file used by the Windows NT 3.5 setup. IDEATAPI.MPD-- The Triones Triton Bus Master EIDE/ATAPI Device Driver for Windows 95. IDEATAPI.INF-- The setup information file used by the Windows 95 setup. TRIN4X.DSK -- The Triones Triton Bus Master EIDE/ATAPI Device Driver for NOVELL version 4.10. TRIN312.DSK -- The Triones Triton Bus Master EIDE/ATAPI Device Driver for NOVELL version 3.12. TRISCO.TAR -- The Triones Triton Bus Master EIDE/ATAPI Device Driver for SCO UNIX. TRIOS2.ADD -- The Triones Triton Bus Master EIDE/ATAPI Device Driver for OS/2 SEEVER.EXE -- A utility to see the driver version information. ############################################################################# 2. M S - D O S / W I N D O W S ############################################################################# 2.1 INSTALLATION The setup program will copy files to the directory you indicate, and make changes to the AUTOEXEC.BAT and CONFIG.SYS to configure the drivers. If the fast disk driver is installed, it wil also make changes to SYSTEM.INI in the Windows directory. To run the setup program: 1) Change the current directory to a: or b: 2) Under DOS command line prompt, run the setup: setup After entering the setup utility, just follow the instructions of the setup. 2.2 DE-INSTALLATION To de-install the disk driver: Edit CONFIG.SYS to remark "DEVICE=C:\TRITON\TRIDMA.SYS". To de-install the CD-ROM driver: Edit CONFIG.SYS to remark "DEVICE=C:\TRITON\TRICD.SYS ..." and also Edit AUTOEXEC.BAT to remark "C:\DOS\MSCDEX /D:MSCD000". To de-install the Fast Disk driver: Edit SYSTEM.INI and remark "DEVICE=C:\TRITON\TRIINT13.386" and "DEVICE=C:\TRITON\TRICTR.386", and also set the values of "OverlappedIO" and "32BitDiskAccess" to OFF. All these entries are under the "[386Enh]" section. 2.3 RESTRICTIONS OF DISK DRIVER and FAST DISK DRIVER 1) If you want to install both of the DOS disk driver and the CD-ROM driver, you should setup the disk driver before the CD-ROM driver in the CONFIG.SYS. 2) The Fast Disk driver for Windows can only function if the DOS disk driver is loaded. 2.4 TROUBLESHOOTING 2.4.1 Overriding Drive Capabilities for the DOS Disk Driver If the driver does not work properly after the installation, it could be that the device drives report wrong capabilities. The driver provides parameters for the user to override the capabilities reported by the connected device drives. The user can append parameters with the following format [/V] [/drive [dma=dmamode|pio=piomode] [!lba] [!ms]] to the "device=..." statement in the CONFIG.SYS file. Where V indicates to display verbose information, including device scanning progress and TRITON chip set timing register values, and etc. drive specifies which drive to override on. It can be: PM primary/master PS primary/slave SM secondary/master SS secondary/slave dmamode specifies the overriding DMA mode. It can be: SW2 single word DMA mode 2 MW1 multi-word DMA mode 1 MW2 multi-word DMA mode 2 NO not use DMA operation. The PIO will be used. piomode specifies the overriding PIO mode. It can be: 0 PIO mode 0 1 PIO mode 1 2 PIO mode 2 3 PIO mode 3 4 PIO mode 4 If the pio_mode is specified, the driver will only use PIO operation on the corresponding drive. !lba indicates not to use LBA mode. !ms indicates not to use multi-sectors commands. For example: device=c:\triton\tridma.sys /PS dma=SW2 !lba indicates that we will use single word DMA mode 2 and not use LBA mode on the slave drive of the primary IDE channel. 2.4.2 Overriding Drive Capabilities for the CD-ROM Driver If the driver does not work properly after the installation, it could be that the CD-ROM drives report wrong capabilities. The driver provides parameters for the user to override the capabilities reported by the connected drives. The user can append parameters with the following format [/V] [/drive dma=dmamode|pio=piomode] to the "device=..." statement in the CONFIG.SYS file. Where V indicates to display verbose information, including device scanning progress and TRITON chip set timing register values. drive specifies which drive to override on. It can be: PM primary/master PS primary/slave SM secondary/master SS secondary/slave dmamode specifies the overriding DMA mode. It can be: SW2 single word DMA mode 2 MW1 multi-word DMA mode 1 MW2 multi-word DMA mode 2 NO not use DMA operation. The driver will use PIO on the corresponding CD-ROM drive. piomode specifies the overriding PIO mode. It can be: 0 PIO mode 0 1 PIO mode 1 2 PIO mode 2 3 PIO mode 3 4 PIO mode 4 If the pio_mode is specified, the driver will only use PIO operation on the corresponding drive. For example: device=c:\triton\tricd.sys /SM dma=no indicates that we will not use DMA and only use PIO operation on the master drive of the secondary IDE channel. ############################################################################# 3. W I N D O W S N T 3 . 5 ############################################################################# 3.1 INSTALLATION 1) From the Program Manager, double click on "Windows NT Setup" in the Main group. 2) Select "Options/Add/Remove SCSI Adapters..." 3) Click on Add. 4) The "Select SCSI Adapter Option" dialog will appear; select "Other (Requires a disk from a hardware manufacturer)" from the "Adapter:" list box. 5) Next, the "Insert Diskette" dialog box will appear; insert the Triones Triton Bus Master EIDE/ATAPI Driver disk into Drive A: and type in "a:\winnt35" and . 6) Next, the "Select OEM Option" dialog box will appear; select "Triton Bus Master EIDE/ATAPI" and click "OK." 7) Next, the "Select SCSI Adapter Option" dialogbox will appear; click on the "Install" button in the dialog box. If installation is successful, the "SCSI Adapter Setup" dialog box will reappear, and "Triton Bus Master EIDE/ATAPI" will be listed. That means the driver is installed. 8) Reboot your system to load the driver. 3.2 DE-INSTALLATION If you want to de-install the Triones Triton Bus Master EIDE/ATAPI Driver, you should keep the EIDE/ATAPI environment the same as when you installed the driver. Otherwise, you may meet some problems. 1) From the Program Manager,double click on "Windows NT Setup" in the Main group. 2) Select "Options/Add/Remove SCSI Adapters...". 3) Select "Triton Bus Master EIDE/ATAPI" and then click on Remove. 4) Exit "Windows NT Setup" and reboot the system. 3.3 TROUBLESHOOTING 3.3.1. Overriding drive capabilities If the Windows NT 3.5 does not work properly after the installation, it could be that the device drives report wrong capabilities. The driver provides 6 parameters for the user to override the capabilities reported by the connected device drives. 1. UseLbaMode: This is a double word parameter specifying if we want to use LBA mode on a particular disk drive. We only use the low word. We split the 16-bit low word into 4 4-bit fields, each corresponding to one possible connected disk drive: 15 12 11 8 7 4 3 0 +-----------------+------------------+---------------+----------------+ | Secondary/Slave | Secondary/Master | Primary/Slave | Primary/Master | +-----------------+------------------+---------------+----------------+ If a field is set to non-zero, then we are going to use LBA mode on the corresponding disk drive. The default value is 0xF. 2. UseMultiBlock: This is a double word parameter specifying if we want to use multiple block commands on a particular disk drive. We only use the low word. We split the 16-bit low word into 4 4-bit fields, each corresponding to one possible connected disk drive: 15 12 11 8 7 4 3 0 +-----------------+------------------+---------------+----------------+ | Secondary/Slave | Secondary/Master | Primary/Slave | Primary/Master | +-----------------+------------------+---------------+----------------+ If a field is set to non-zero, then we are going to use multiple block command on the corresponding disk drive. The default value is 0. 3. PrimaryMasterMode: 4. PrimarySlaveMode: 5. SecondaryMasterMode: 6. SecondarySlaveMode: These are double word parameters. We can use them to override DMA/PIO timing modes for the connected drives. Some drives may have firmware bugs causing them to report the wrong ATA DMA/PIO timing mode to the driver. Most notable are the multitude of drives on the market which claim to support PIO Mode 2 when in fact, they really are Mode 0 or Mode 1 drives. Incorrect ATA DMA/PIO timing modes may cause system boot failure or data corruption. Therefore, the driver includes a facility whereby the user may override the vendor-specified ATA timing mode. The possible parameter values are: 0x00 Use DMA with Single-Word DMA mode 0 0x01 Use DMA with Single-Word DMA mode 1 0x02 Use DMA with Single-Word DMA mode 2 0x03 Use DMA with Multi-Word DMA mode 1 0x04 Use DMA with Multi-Word DMA mode 2 0xf0 Use PIO with PIO mode 0 0xf1 Use PIO with PIO mode 1 0xf2 Use PIO with PIO mode 2 0xf3 Use PIO with PIO mode 3 0xf4 Use PIO with PIO mode 4 0xf5 Use PIO with PIO mode 5 0xff Use PIO with driver-decided default PIO mode 0xffffffff Default value, the driver will decide what operation (DMA/PIO) and what mode to use by itself. To set the parameters: 1) From the Program Manager, select File/Run and type in "REGEDT32". 2) In the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE subwindow, open the SYSTEM / CurrentControlSet / Services / IDEAtapi / Parameters or 3) Double click on the parameter name you want to change, and make your change. Be sure to click on the Radix/Hexdecimal button before clicking OK. 4) Reboot your system. ############################################################################# 4. W I N D O W S 9 5 ############################################################################# 4.1 INSTALLATION 1) Close any running applications. 2) Remove references to installed real-mode, IDE device drivers in the AUTOEXEC.BAT and CONFIG.SYS files, especially any drivers that control ATAPI CD-ROM and special IDE features. 3) Remove references to the default installed IDE device drivers. A. Open the Control Panel folder. B. Invoke the System applet. C. Click on the Device Manager option. D. Click on the View Devices by Type button. A list of the system devices connected to the system will be displayed. E. Click on the Hard disk controllers record. There could be two cases. For case 1, there should be three instances listed: * Intel PIIX PCI IDE Controller (Bus Mastering not supported) * Primary IDE controller (dual FIFO) * Secondary IDE controller (dual FIFO) Goto step F for case 1. For case 2, there should be two instances listed: * Standard ESDI/IDE Controller * Standard ESDI/IDE Controller Goto G for case 2. F. Remove the Intel PIIX PCI IDE Controller's listing (case 1). 1. Select the Intel PIIX PCI IDE Controller. 2. Click on the Remove option. 3. Select OK when prompted to remove this controller. 4. Goto step H. G. Remove the Standard ESDI/IDE Controller listings (case 2). 1. Remove the Secondary Controller's listing. a. Select the Second instance of the Standard ESDI/IDE Controller. b. Click on the Remove option. c. Select Yes when prompted to remove this controller. 2. Remove the Primary Controller's listing. a. Select the remaining instance of the Standard ESDI/IDE Controller. b. Click on the Remove option. c. Select Yes when prompted to remove this controller. H. Select Yes when prompted to re-start Windows 95*. I. Windows 95* will re-start. 4) Install the Bus Master EIDE/ATAPI driver when prompted to do so. A. Windows 95* will report that an Intel PIIX PCI IDE Controller or a Standard ESDI/IDE Controller has been detected in the system. Select Driver from disk provided by hardware manufacturer. B. Insert the floppy disk containing the driver file (IDEATAPI.MPD) and installation file (IDEATAPI.INF) into the system. C. Type in \WIN95 and choose OK to load the driver from the A:\WIN95 D. Windows 95* will display a Select Device window. Choose OK. Note: * If Windows 95* reported that an Intel PIIX PCI IDE Controller has been detected, the selected device type should be the Intel Triton Bus Master IDE Controllers. * If Windows 95* reported that a Standard ESDI/IDE Controller has been detected, the selected device type should be the Intel Triton Bus Master IDE Controller. E. When prompted to re-insert the floppy containing the IDEATAPI.MPD file, choose OK again. Note: * Windows 95* may not be able to process the .INF file and .MPD file the first time, choose OK again if this happens. F. Select Yes when prompted to re-start Windows 95*. G. Windows 95* will report that the system settings have changed. Select Yes when prompted to re-start Windows 95*. The IDEATAPI.MPD driver will be installed and used as long as the Triton IDE interface is enabled. After installation, the IDEATAPI.MPD file is stored in the c:\\System\IOSubSys directory. The IDEATAPI.INF information on the install floppy is integrated into the Windows 95* device database for automatic support of the Intel Triton Bus Master IDE Controller and is stored in the c:\\INF directory as one of the files named OEM.INF (name varies depending on system.) 4.2 DE-INSTALLATION (Method 1) This procedure allows one to de-install the use of the Intel Triton Bus Master EIDE/ATAPI device driver and restore the default Windows 95* device driver for IDE support. 1) Close any running applications. 2) Un-install the bus master driver. A. Open the Control Panel folder. B. Invoke the System applet. C. Click on the Device Manager option. D. Click on the View Devices by Type option. A list of the system devices connected to the system will be displayed. E. Click on the Hard disk controllers record. For case 1, there should be three instances listed. * Intel Triton Bus Master IDE Controllers * Primary IDE controller * Secondary IDE controller Goto step F for case 1. For case 2, there should be two instances listed: * Intel Triton Bus Master IDE Controller * Intel Triton Bus Master IDE Controller Goto step G for case 2. F. Remove the Intel Triton Bus Master IDE Controllers listings (case 1). 1. Select the Intel Triton Bus Master IDE Controllers listing. 2. Click on the Remove option. 3. Select OK when prompted to remove this controller. 4. Goto step H. G. Remove the Intel Triton Bus Master IDE Controller listings (case 2). 1. Delete the associated .INF file: a. Go to the .INF directory: (1) Invoke the MS-DOS* Command prompt (2) cd c:\INF b. Determine which INF file to delete. The Intel Triton Bus Master IDE Controller .INF file is located at one of the files named OEM.INF. There may be one or more of these OEM.INF files loaded on the system. To determine the correct one to delete use file compare to compare each of the OEM.INF files to the IDEATAPI.INF file on the install floppy. Other devices may be stored as an OEM*.INF file, so it is important to select the correct one. c. Delete the correct OEM.INF file. 2. Remove the Secondary Controller's listing. a. Select the Second instance of the Intel Triton Bus Master IDE Controller. b. Click on the Remove option. c. Select Yes when prompted to remove this controller. 3. Remove the Primary Controller's listing. a. Select the remaining instance of the Intel Triton Bus Master IDE Controller b. Click on the Remove option. c. Select Yes when prompted to remove this controller. H. Select Yes when prompted to re-start Windows 95* I. Windows 95* will restart. 3. Install the default Windows drivers when prompted to do so. A. Windows 95* will report that the Intel PIIX PCI IDE Controller (Bus mastering not supported) has been detected. Select the Windows default driver for installation. B. Select Yes when prompted to re-start Windows 95* 4.3 DE-INSTALLATION (Method 2) You can also try another way to change back to the Windows 95* default driver: 1. Open the Control Panel folder. 2. Invoke the System applet. 3. Click on the Device Manager option. 4. Click on the View Devices by Type option. A list of the system devices connected to the system will be displayed. 5. Click on the Hard disk controllers record. For case 1, there should be three instances listed. * Intel Triton Bus Master IDE Controllers * Primary IDE controller * Secondary IDE controller Goto step 6 for case 1. For case 2, there should be two instances listed: * Intel Triton Bus Master IDE Controller * Intel Triton Bus Master IDE Controller Goto step 7 for case 2. 6. For case 1: o Double click on the Intel Triton Bus Master IDE Controllers. o Click on the Driver. o Click on the Change Driver. o Select the default driver to change back to. 7. For each instance of case 2: o Double click on the Intel Triton Bus Master IDE Controller. o Click on the Driver. o Click on the Change Driver. o Select the default driver to change back to. 8. Restart Windows 95* when prompted to do so. ############################################################################# 5. N O V E L L 3.X & 4.X ############################################################################# 5.1 INSTALLATION 1) Copy the driver TRIN4X.DSK or TRIN312.DSK to the subdirectory which holds the file SERVER.EXE. 2) Boot up the file server. 3) On the system console and on the command prompt state, type in: load TRIN4X.DSK or load TRIN312.DSK You can also include the above command line into the start up file STARTUP.NCF to load the driver automatically. For disk operation or CD-ROM operation, please refer to the corresponding NOVELL system user manual. NOVELL has a command "cd help" which describe all features for CD-ROM. 5.2 TROUBLESHOOTING 5.2.1 Overriding Drive Capabilities If the NOVELL does not work properly after the installation, it could be that the device drives report wrong capabilities. The user can use parameters to override the capabilities reported by the connected device drives. The user can append parameters with the following format [/V] [/drive [dma=dmamode|pio=piomode] [!lba] [!ms]] to "load TRINxxx". Where V indicates to display verbose information. drive specifies which drive to override on. It can be: PM primary/master PS primary/slave SM secondary/master SS secondary/slave dmamode specifies the overriding DMA mode. It can be: SW2 single word DMA mode 2 MW1 multi-word DMA mode 1 MW2 multi-word DMA mode 2 NO not use DMA operation. The PIO will be used. piomode specifies the overriding PIO mode. It can be: 0 PIO mode 0 1 PIO mode 1 2 PIO mode 2 3 PIO mode 3 4 PIO mode 4 If the pio_mode is specified, the driver will only use PIO operation on the corresponding drive. !lba indicates not to use LBA mode. !ms indicates not to use multi-sectors commands. ############################################################################# 6. S C O U N I X ############################################################################# 6.1 INSTALLATION 1) Install SCO UNIX 3.2.x or SCO Open Desktop 3.x using the default SCO IDE driver. 2) Reboot your SCO UNIX system. 3) Insert Triones supplied diskette into the 3.5inch floppy drive of your system. Use doscp command to copy the file TRISCO.TAR to your /tmp directory. For example, if you are using floppy drive A, type: doscp a:/scounix/trisco.tar /tmp/trisco.tar 4) From root directory, type the following commands: mkdir /inst cd /inst tar xvf /tmp/trisco.tar . (NOTE: there is a period at the end of the last command.) 5) Now, insert a blank diskette into the floppy drive A and type: tar cvf /dev/ . (NOTE: there is a period at the end of the last command.) Your floppy drive A device name could be: rfd096ds15 5.25 DSHD rfd0135ds18 3.5 DSHD rfd048ds9 5.25 DSDD rfd0135ds9 3.5 DSDD Now you have already made an installation diskette for the device driver. Start the installation by typing: custom 6) Select the "Install" operation and then follow the guided steps. When prompted "Do you want to set the device configuration (y/n)", answer "n". 7) Reboot your SCO UNIX system. 6.2 DE-INSTALLATION 1) Start the de-installation by typing: custom 2) Select the "remove" operation to start the de-installation. 3) Then select the All EIDE Bus Master Device Driver Package. The driver will be removed from the SCO UNIX System disk and the original IDE driver will be restored. 4) Reboot your SCO UNIX system and now the TRISCO Device Driver has been removed. 6.3 ADDING ADDITIONAL HARD DISK 1) First type command: mkdev hd unit SCSI-adapter 0 trisco where, the "unit" can be 0 (indicates the master drive) or 1 ( indicates the slave drive); The "adapter" can be 0 (indicates the primary channel) or 1 (indicates the secondary channel). For example, to configure the master driver on the secondary IDE channe type: mkdev hd 0 SCSI-1 0 trisco Then just follow the instructions of this command to update SCSI configuration and build a new kernel. Reboot your SCO UNIX system. 6.4 ADDING CD-ROM 1) First type command: mkdev cdrom Then follow the instructions of this command. Answer the ferfix name by ide, the Adapter by 0 (primary channel) or 1 (secondary channel). The unit by 0 ( master derive) or 1 (slave drive). The lun by 0. If you have not installed the high-sierra file system, answer "y" to install it. At last, answer "y" to build a new kernel. 2) Reboot your SCO UNIX system. 3) To mount a CD-ROM, type: mount -r -f HS, lower /dev/cdnumber / where "number" is the CD-ROM device number which can be 0, 1,..., depending on the order of the CD-ROM installation, and is a NULL directory name which you can create by command "mkdir". 4) Now, you can operate the CD-ROM through the "install node" directory. 6.5 TROUBLESHOOTING 6.5.1 Overriding Drive Capabilities If the SCO UNIX system does not work properly after the installation, it could be that the device drives report wrong capabilities. The user can chose parameters to override the capabilities reported by the connected device drives. 1) Insert the installation diskette in the floppy drive A, and type custom 2) Select the "install" operation and EIDE Device Driver For Intel Triton to start the process. When prompted "Do you want to set the device configuration (y/n)", answer "y", then you can set the parameters for the driver. 3) After you finish, reboot your SCO UNIX system. ############################################################################# 7. S C O U N I X 5.0 ############################################################################# 7.1 INSTALLATION 1) Install SCO UNIX 5.0 using the default SCO IDE driver. 2) Reboot your SCO UNIX system. 3) Insert Triones supplied diskette into the 3.5inch floppy drive of your system. Use doscp command to copy the file TRISCO5.TAR to your /tmp directory. For example, if you are using floppy drive A, type: doscp a:/scounix/trisco5.tar /tmp/trisco5.tar 4) From root directory, type the following commands: mkdir /inst cd /inst tar xvf /tmp/trisco5.tar . (NOTE: there is a period at the end of the last command.) 5) Install the driver by typing: ./install 6) Reboot your SCO UNIX system. 7.2 DE-INSTALLATION 1) Change the directory to /inst. 2) Remove the driver by typing: ./remove ############################################################################# 8. O S / 2 2.0 and W A R P 3.X ############################################################################# 8.1 INSTALLATION 1) Copy TRIOS2.ADD from the floppy diskette to your hard disk under the OS2 directory (i.e., C:\OS2). 2) Edit C:\CONFIG.SYS to replace BASEDEV=IBM1S506.ADD with BASEDEV=TRIOS2.ADD 3) Reboot the system. 8.2 DE-INSTALLATION 1) Edit C:\CONFIG.SYS and change BASEDEV=TRIOS2.ADD back to BASEDEV=IBM1S506.ADD 2) Reboot the system. 8.3 TROUBLESHOOTING 8.3.1 Overriding Drive Capabilities If the OS/2 system does not work properly after the installation, it could be that the device drives report wrong capabilities. The user can use parameters to override the capabilities reported by the connected device drives. The user can append parameters with the following format [/V] [/drive [dma=dmamode|pio=piomode] [!lba] [!ms]] to "BASEDEV=TRIOS2.ADD" Where V indicates to display verbose information. drive specifies which drive to override on. It can be: PM primary/master PS primary/slave SM secondary/master SS secondary/slave dmamode specifies the overriding DMA mode. It can be: SW2 single word DMA mode 2 MW1 multi-word DMA mode 1 MW2 multi-word DMA mode 2 NO not use DMA operation. The PIO will be used. piomode specifies the overriding PIO mode. It can be: 0 PIO mode 0 1 PIO mode 1 2 PIO mode 2 3 PIO mode 3 4 PIO mode 4 If the pio_mode is specified, the driver will only use PIO operation on the corresponding drive. !lba indicates not to use LBA mode. !ms indicates not to use multi-sectors commands. ############################################################################# 9. S E E V E R U T I L I T Y ############################################################################# SEEVER.EXE is a utility that will display the build information for all Triton device drivers. To use this utility type SEEVER and the file name. You will see information about the device driver and when it was created. The purpose for this utility is to keep track of the different versions of the device drivers that might be released in the future. ############################################################################# ############################################################################# COPYRIGHT: Copyright (c) Triones Technologies, Inc. 1994-1995, All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior written consent of Triones Technologies, Inc. 47963A Warm Springs Blvd. Fremont, Ca. 94539 LIMITATION OF LIABILITY: IN NO EVENT WILL TRIONES BE LIABLE FOR DIRECT, INDIRECT, SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES ARISING OUT OF THE USE OR INABILITY TO USE THIS PRODUCT OR DOCUMENTATION, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES. IN PARTICULAR, TRIONES SHALL NOT HAVE LIABILITY FOR ANY HARDWARE, SOFTWARE, OR DATA STORED USED WITH THE PRODUCT, INCLUDING THE COSTS OF REPAIRING, REPLACING, OR RECOVERING SUCH HARDWARE, OR DATA. TRADEMARKS: OS/2 is a registered trademark of International Business Machines Corporation. MS-DOS, Windows, MS, Windows NT3.5, Windows 95, Windows for WorkGroups 311 are registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation. NOVELL 3.x, NOVELL 4.x are registered trademarks of NOVELL, Inc. SCO UNIX is a registered trademark of UNIX systems Laboratory, Inc. CHANGES: The material in this manual is for information only and is subject to change without notice. TRIONES reserves the right to make changes in the product design without reservation and without notification to its users.